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In the story “So I ain’t no Good Girl “written by Sharon Flakes. I felt like the scene was very realistic, the characters made the scene very realistic by the way they were acting. The author described the scene pretty good when she said: “if I scream at him the whole street could hear me”. I can also relate to the scene in my everyday life. A boy and his girlfriend where at a bus stop with some other girls, And Raheem starts to act a little flirter with the good girls who made his girlfriend kind of upset about the situation, so she tries to talk about it, but he got mad at her and ended up making out with the good girl.
Maverick greatly expresses his distaste of turning his back on his neighbourhood, and leading to Starr becoming accepting about where she is from. The base of her relationship with her father is their loyalty and drive to protect the people they love. This relationship lets her reflect on how she looks at her neighborhood because that is where his loyalties lie, and it also lets her reflect on how she can help it, which leads to her defending her community in the novel. Moreover, Starr’s journey began with Khalil and his death, so it is evident that their relationship guides her to speak up against the injustice towards him. After keeping silent for so long, her love for Khalil wins and she decides to speak up without barriers, “‘My name is Starr.
In the small town of Maycomb, a little girl named Scout believe that everyone was good, until she figured out that the town wasn't as innocent as she thought. The town seems like a nice and quiet place to live. it's very small and everyone throughout the community know each other very well. News travels fast And so does gossip. word got out that a man by the name of Tom Robinson, assaulted a woman and ran from the scene.
Fiction is needed to develop other forms of thinking and to expand creativity. Fiction novels could help students view things from different perspectives. It may help us in a similar situation from the book for example,in the book “The hate u give “ by Angie Thomas there is a situation with police brutality and the way he handled it can inspire others to do the same or we could see where it went wrong and not do that. A young African American male is shot and killed by a white policeman. Garden Heights residents come together in the face of unspeakable tragedy which reflects the strong sense of community felt by those who live in Garden Heights.
It’s Hope In the short story “It’s That It Hurts” by Thomas Rivera, a boy got expelled from school. The “it” that hurts in the story is the boy’s hope. He had hoped to finish school, his parent’s had hoped for him to do well and get a good education at school, and he hoped that he would be able to achieve his dream job, a telephone operator. But because he got expelled he and his parent’s hope had died.
An illusion is a false sense of reality or a deception of the truth. The beauty industry capitalizes on women every day by promoting products that give the illusion of flawless skin, longer eyelashes, longer hair, bigger bra size, and slimming waist line. Many people can be deceived by others because they are not who they portray to be. In Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Good Country people” the author vividly describes a character that has a false sense of reality through intelligence, deception and unbelief. Hugla, the protagonist has a false misinterpretation of her intelligence.
In "Good Country People," by Flannery O'Connor, there are four distinct characters, each with their own opinions and morals. Mrs. Hopewell categorizes her hired help, Mrs. Freeman, and a traveling Bible salesman named Manley Pointer as "good country people." However, the term "good country people" takes on various meanings throughout the story. Mrs. Hopewell believes that she and her daughter Joy—who has adopted the name Hulga—are superior to everyone else. In contrast to their rural neighbors, they are educated and sophisticated.
In the song “Stand Up” by Cynthia Envo she says, “So I'm gonna stand up, take my people with me, together we are going, to a brand new home, far across the river, can you hear freedom calling? Calling me to answer, gonna keep on keepin' on”. In this song lyric, Envo shows that she is going to fight for her rights until she possesses them. To maintain self-respect and pave a path for future generations it’s crucial to stand up for what you believe in.
When is it okay to question the authority of law enforcement? We learn from a young age that cops are supposed to be the ones we run to for help, and yet we’re constantly finding them being involved in a routine stop gone wrong. We constantly hear about the different times an African American person has lost their life after they were pulled over by a police officer. The novel turned movie ‘The Hate U Give’ by Angie Thomas helps portray an ounce of what families go through when they lose their loved ones to racial injustices. Losing a loved one will always be life altering especially when you learn that they were killed by a police officer.
“I thought killing those fools would make me feel good, but it really didn't make me feel anything. I just knew that I could kill somebody, and if I had to, I could do it again”(Caine from Menace ll Society). This quote is a prime example of how physical and mental conflict shapes a person mentally by making them tougher but weaker at the same time. In the book Dear Justice by Nic Stone, conflicts because it makes them stronger, but also damages people’s emotions, and shows the lack of support in his life. Physical conflict has a significant impact on how tough and mentally and physically strong you are.
Fire is a fantasy novel by Kristin Cashore, the novel is about a girl named Fire who lives in the land of Dells. Fire is the last human monster, who is beautiful and amazingly talented. Fire is so beautiful that she has the ability to control human and animals minds when they are around her. When I read this novel, I felt anxious. I felt this because the story was so engaging that I began to feel connected to the characters.
Through time, people have been getting confused about love and how it really works. Like when a girl has feelings for the guy it is completely different from when a guy has feelings for a girl. While love is a waste because love is hard to understand, mainly when a guy likes a girl and the girl is leading the guy on but ends not liking the guy, love is super confusing to everyone, and a person will never know when another person of the opposite gender actually likes them. Love does not make any sense. Mainly because girls are confusing when it comes to love.
On September 11, 2001, tragedy struck the city of New York. On that fateful day, two airplanes were hijacked by terrorists and flew straight into the twin towers. Each tower fell completely to the ground, taking thousands of lives with it and injuring thousands more. Not only did that day leave thousands of families without their loved ones, it also left an entire city and an entire country to deal with the aftermath of the destruction. Poet, Nancy Mercado, worries that one day people will forget that heartbreaking day.
Taylor Swift defended her decision to take off her music on Spotify after Zayn Malik criticized her decision. The British crooner compared the American singer to Miley Cyrus and praised the latter for letting the service to stream her next album for free. Calvin Harris supported his girlfriend as he answered all the accusations of the former One Direction bandmate. Zayn shaded the “Bad Blood” hitmaker by retweeting a photo which included her and the girlfriend of Stella Maxwell’s different opinion of sharing their songs.
“Hurt” by Johnny Cash In the song “Hurt” written by Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails is a song that talks about him and his regrettable past, which includes lying, drug abuse, and pain from adversity. He is showing resentment for his past actions. The song's theme is "Don't get caught up in the past." "The needle tears a hole, The old familiar sting," the song's lyrics say. This literacy device is an implied metaphor that compares needles to drug abuse.
